It always seems that America is always under threat...
...from terrorism, communists and those damn secularists in the government who want to change "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays" who want to remove the insignia "In God We Trust" in their money...
... and I don't quite understand what the fuzz is all about.
Every now and then I encounter well-meaning American (or Filipino-American) Christians who do good and want to do good, who freak out whenever they come face-to-face with the realization that their country is not (to their disappointment) a ‘Christian nation’
Marcus Borg is widely-known and influential voices in progressive Christianity and is a major figure in scholarship related to the search for the Historical Jesus. I first encountered his works through the book The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, which he co-authored with his friend N.T. Wright.
I bought his book The God We Never Knew, as a Christmas gift for myself last year because I found myself agreeing with a lot of his insights in his conversation with N.T. Wright in The Meaning of Jesus. In The God We Never Knew, Borg was able to write a semi-biographical account of responding to our present time's need to hear about the distinction between history and metaphor because there are many parts in the gospels that a lot of people these days can't take literally. Because when literalized, the story of Jesus becomes literally incredible.
